CSE ICON expands into downtown Lafayette

LEDA President & CEO Gregg Gothreaux, left, shakes hands with John Miller, vice president of operations for CSE Icon, following a ribbon cutting ceremony for CSE Icon's expansion through a partnership with LEDA's Opportunity Machine Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at the former AT&T building in downtown Lafayette. Also pictured is CSE Icon President and CEO Salil Gopinath, center.(Photo11: Leslie Westbrook, The Advertiser)Buy Photo

Today, officials from CSE ICON, Inc. announced the company's expansion and acceleration through the Opportunity Machine program. CSE ICON is a U.S.-based consulting, engineering and technology integration services firm that services the energy and utilities industries.

"CSE ICON is excited to expand into Downtown Lafayette. Our Lafayette office acts as a technology nerve center for the Oil and Gas Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream services that we provide all over the United States," John Miller, vice president of Operations for CSE ICON, said in an accouncement. "Our location in the Hub City allows our company access to exceptional, experienced oil and gas resources, as well as great exposure to top talent emerging from universities in South Louisiana."

Since January, 2014, CSE ICON has grown from 28 to 59 employees. The company said it plans to add another 25 employees in their Lafayette office.

CSE ICON staff includes practice leads, system consultants, system engineers and enterprise integrators with expertise and experience in SCADA, Real time Data Infrastructure, Cybersecurity systems and procedures, Integrated Controls and Measurement and Storage, and Servers and Network areas.

Though its acceleration program, theOM provided the initial office space to facilitate CSE ICON's expansion in Lafayette. CSE ICON has signed a lease agreement with the Southwest Group to occupy space previously utilized by theOM as The Switch.

"We are grateful for the tireless efforts that LEDA/theOM and Southwest Group have put forward to help ICON secure such a conducive office environment," said Miller. "Their hard work has made it all the easier for ICON to grow by 100% in its first year."

"The goal of theOM is to recruit and grow the best businesses in/to Lafayette. CSE ICON not only meets that vision, it exceeds it with their rapid success," said Zachary Barker, Executive Director of theOM. "CSE ICON represents the long tradition of the energy industry and the emergence of a robust technology sector in Lafayette."

CSE ICON has offices in Lafayette, LA, the Woodlands, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. The company currently provides services in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. CSE ICON is a registered partner of Weatherford, Schneider Electric, Inductive Automation, OSISoft, and Transpara.

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